Hanoi news

More than 95 percent of Hanoi’s dengue hotbeds under control

Hanoi has put
95.31 percent of dengue hotbeds under control with no new infections in a 14
day period, while the other 240 remained active, according to statistics from
the city’s Department of Health.

The department said on October 23 that the
capital city recorded 862 cases of dengue fever between October 16 and 22, a
decrease of 159 cases from the previous week. Twenty-four of 30 districts saw a
decline in infections, it added.

It estimated that about 34,450 people have
contracted dengue since the beginning of this year, seven of whom died due to
the disease.

The department’s deputy director Hoang Duc
Hanh warned that the current weather was still favourable for the development
of mosquitoes. Districts and communes must continue taking preventive measures
to control the disease, he urged.

The Hanoi Preventive Medicine Centre
alongside medical centres at Chuong My and My Duc districts are responsible for
directing environmental cleanups in the districts’ areas affected by floods
early this month to prevent new outbreaks, he noted.-VNA